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Friendly Persuasion (thee I Love) Lyrics

Artist: Pat Boone

Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)

-Artist: Pat Boone from "Pat Boone's Greatest Hits"-MCA:MCAC 10885-peak Billboard position # 5 in 1956-competing version by The Four Aces charted at # 45]-title song from the movie starring Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony-Perkins, and Marjorie Main-Words by Paul Francis Webster and Music by Dmitri Tiomkin-title is an obvious play on words since the film centered on a Quaker family-Quakers are also known the "Society Of Friends": thus, they can be said to-be of the "Friendly" Persuasion.

Thee I love, more than the meadow so green and stillMore than the mulberries on the hillMore than the buds of a May apple tree, I love thee

Arms have I, strong as the oak, for this occasionLips have I, to kiss thee, too, in friendly persuasion

Thee is mine, though I don't know many words of praiseThee pleasures me in a hundred waysPut on your bonnet, your cape, and your gloveAnd come with me, for thee I love

Friendly persuasion

Thee is mine, though I don't know many words of praiseThee pleasures me in a hundred waysPut on your bonnet, your cape, and your gloveAnd come with me, for thee I love

Transcribed by Robin Hood

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Comments/Interpretations

by Fred on 8/31/2012 11:30pmGreat song, beautiful words and sung very nicely by Pat with that beautiful baritone voice.